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Would you be happy if City joined this European Super League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 5.3%

  • No

    Votes: 1,954 94.7%
  • Total voters
    2,063
Cityzen_89 said:
One thing I'm wondering is how do our government "kill it" when it does not reside in this country? Can you kill something that does not have a HQ yet for example? Who owns it, where is the HQ, who will be held accountable?
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You can “kill it” for the 6 playing in this country and tie them up in so much red tape that it’ll make it impossible for them.
Tax and work permits are 2 very simple ones and they could change laws to make it even harder, knowing they’ll get the backing from the rest of football.
Easy votes.
 
Oasis94 said:
I can only assume the owners think we owe them eternal gratitude for 'rescuing' us and can do whatever the fuck they like with our club.
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On the contrary. City are reported as being last on board and only joined so as not to be left behind financially. The ESL is going to give 14 competitors of ours a huge windfall, that would otherwise knock us back years.
 
Cityzen_89 said:
One thing I'm wondering is how do our government "kill it" when it does not reside in this country? Can you kill something that does not have a HQ yet for example? Who owns it, where is the HQ, who will be held accountable?
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You can start by denying work permits to non-british players and withdrawing match day policing.
 
Now you’re talking...apologies if already posted.

‘UEFA is preparing a counter-attack in the Super League. UEFA is working with english investment fund to come up with new LOC that would have a starting budget of 4.5 billion € but which could go up to 7 billion.‘ @RCMSport
 
Was hopefully around midday that City were going to announce they had pulled out of this ESL. Seems to have gone very quiet now from what I see on here. No press/media tweeter saying anything about City.
Hope I am wrong an City quit before it is really to late
 
I believe the snakes super league chairman Florentino perez & his vice chairman (cronies) have just had their 1st board meeting by zoom & voted for a salary increase for all of them.
They also voted to change the games name to soccer so all tourists fans can relate to it.
Any games ending in a draw will be decided by a shootout .
To get back in the good books of Legacy fans they are getting topless cheerleaders in for halftime entertainment for all games .
 
CityBlu said:
I don't understand why fans are saying the players won't get richer because of the ESL. Of course they will! The ESL will generate ten times the world tv revenue of the CL. And TV is the only place that clubs can generate the revenue needed to pay the increasingly greedy players. Just look at Sterling: playing poor but still expecting a new huge pay increase. Where do fans imagine this pay raise will come from? That's right... tv revenues. Which currently are stagnant.

Football is the most exciting game on earth. But is is terribly dull when 90% of teams are parking the bus every week.
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Knew it would be razzers fault , ffs
 
Tugay One Cup said:
I don't think Americans understand the cultural impact of football clubs in the UK.

Most of these clubs have been around for over a century and there are families who have been supporting and attending matches for generations. They're a part of local identity, whether or not they also happen to be multi million/ billion pound businesses.

US sports might have their exceptions but this is the standard of football in Britain. Sports franchises in American aren't even fixed to one geographical location. One day you're supporting the Seattle Supersonics, the next they've jumped 2000 miles down the road to Oklahoma.

I'm not even targeting American sports, I'm a big NBA fan, but I do think that there's a fundamental cultural aspect of football that the supporters across the pond don't understand because you simply can't until you've lived it.

Football isn't always fair. It's not been fair to us in the past and it's, quite frankly, not been fair on the teams at the bottom end of the table for decades. But a big part of it is about overcoming odds, falling and getting back up again. Promotion and relegation are ingrained in my brain as a Manchester City supporter.

In American supports, leagues/ conferences are often a closed loop where the lowest teams are rewarded for being shit in order to maintain the "parity" you talk about.

That's not the way it works, as far as I'm concerned. The pyramid is a far more engaging system, in no small part because of the brutality.
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listen i completely understand this, and why as a man city fan i dislike the idea of the ESL. I truly love the way football has a system based on staying competitive and sticking to your team when they are down

but that can equally apply to fans of teams here in the US. I have been a hockey fan my whole life, lived and died with the NY Rangers. Ive seen much more disappointment then i have seen championships. which is something that man city fans can understand
 
Tugay One Cup said:
I don't think Americans understand the cultural impact of football clubs in the UK.

Most of these clubs have been around for over a century and there are families who have been supporting and attending matches for generations. They're a part of local identity, whether or not they also happen to be multi million/ billion pound businesses.

US sports might have their exceptions but this is the standard of football in Britain. Sports franchises in American aren't even fixed to one geographical location. One day you're supporting the Seattle Supersonics, the next they've jumped 2000 miles down the road to Oklahoma.

I'm not even targeting American sports, I'm a big NBA fan, but I do think that there's a fundamental cultural aspect of football that the supporters across the pond don't understand because you simply can't until you've lived it.

Football isn't always fair. It's not been fair to us in the past and it's, quite frankly, not been fair on the teams at the bottom end of the table for decades. But a big part of it is about overcoming odds, falling and getting back up again. Promotion and relegation are ingrained in my brain as a Manchester City supporter.

In American supports, leagues/ conferences are often a closed loop where the lowest teams are rewarded for being shit in order to maintain the "parity" you talk about.

That's not the way it works, as far as I'm concerned. The pyramid is a far more engaging system, in no small part because of the brutality.
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Brilliant post and absolutely spot on.

I don’t want to be disbarging about American’s relationship with sport, they feel the pain when they lose and have family ties too.

But football has pretty much replaced organised religion in Europe. It’s not an entertainment product, it’s part of who we are.
 
give it to gordon said:
Was hopefully around midday that City were going to announce they had pulled out of this ESL. Seems to have gone very quiet now from what I see on here. No press/media tweeter saying anything about City.
Hope I am wrong an City quit before it is really to late
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Been quiet since we announced we was joining it nothing at all from the club, which to me explains alot.
 
CityBlu said:
I don't understand why fans are saying the players won't get richer because of the ESL. Of course they will! The ESL will generate ten times the world tv revenue of the CL. And TV is the only place that clubs can generate the revenue needed to pay the increasingly greedy players. Just look at Sterling: playing poor but still expecting a new huge pay increase. Where do fans imagine this pay raise will come from? That's right... tv revenues. Which currently are stagnant.

Football is the most exciting game on earth. But is is terribly dull when 90% of teams are parking the bus every week.
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It won't generate any more money, the Premier League is the best in the world ar generating finance, Perez and Agnelli are desperate, the fact 6 English teams are "invited" should tell you everything.
 
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